17 Dec, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
    "A quiet cycle for the security subsystem with just a few maintenance
    updates."

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
    Smack: create a sysfs mount point for smackfs
    Smack: use select not depends in Kconfig
    Yama: remove locking from delete path
    Yama: add RCU to drop read locking
    drivers/char/tpm: remove tasklet and cleanup
    KEYS: Use keyring_alloc() to create special keyrings
    KEYS: Reduce initial permissions on keys
    KEYS: Make the session and process keyrings per-thread
    seccomp: Make syscall skipping and nr changes more consistent
    key: Fix resource leak
    keys: Fix unreachable code
    KEYS: Add payload preparsing opportunity prior to key instantiate or update

    Linus Torvalds
     

15 Oct, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell:
    "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..."

    Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG.

    * 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits)
    X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling
    X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel
    asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning
    MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking
    MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.
    MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs
    MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig
    MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process
    MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert
    MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking
    MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel
    MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing
    MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options
    MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files
    MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy
    module: signature checking hook
    X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates
    MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
    X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
    X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

08 Oct, 2012

1 commit

  • Give the key type the opportunity to preparse the payload prior to the
    instantiation and update routines being called. This is done with the
    provision of two new key type operations:

    int (*preparse)(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep);
    void (*free_preparse)(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep);

    If the first operation is present, then it is called before key creation (in
    the add/update case) or before the key semaphore is taken (in the update and
    instantiate cases). The second operation is called to clean up if the first
    was called.

    preparse() is given the opportunity to fill in the following structure:

    struct key_preparsed_payload {
    char *description;
    void *type_data[2];
    void *payload;
    const void *data;
    size_t datalen;
    size_t quotalen;
    };

    Before the preparser is called, the first three fields will have been cleared,
    the payload pointer and size will be stored in data and datalen and the default
    quota size from the key_type struct will be stored into quotalen.

    The preparser may parse the payload in any way it likes and may store data in
    the type_data[] and payload fields for use by the instantiate() and update()
    ops.

    The preparser may also propose a description for the key by attaching it as a
    string to the description field. This can be used by passing a NULL or ""
    description to the add_key() system call or the key_create_or_update()
    function. This cannot work with request_key() as that required the description
    to tell the upcall about the key to be created.

    This, for example permits keys that store PGP public keys to generate their own
    name from the user ID and public key fingerprint in the key.

    The instantiate() and update() operations are then modified to look like this:

    int (*instantiate)(struct key *key, struct key_preparsed_payload *prep);
    int (*update)(struct key *key, struct key_preparsed_payload *prep);

    and the new payload data is passed in *prep, whether or not it was preparsed.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

    David Howells
     

03 Oct, 2012

2 commits


14 Sep, 2012

1 commit


13 Sep, 2012

1 commit

  • Give the key type the opportunity to preparse the payload prior to the
    instantiation and update routines being called. This is done with the
    provision of two new key type operations:

    int (*preparse)(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep);
    void (*free_preparse)(struct key_preparsed_payload *prep);

    If the first operation is present, then it is called before key creation (in
    the add/update case) or before the key semaphore is taken (in the update and
    instantiate cases). The second operation is called to clean up if the first
    was called.

    preparse() is given the opportunity to fill in the following structure:

    struct key_preparsed_payload {
    char *description;
    void *type_data[2];
    void *payload;
    const void *data;
    size_t datalen;
    size_t quotalen;
    };

    Before the preparser is called, the first three fields will have been cleared,
    the payload pointer and size will be stored in data and datalen and the default
    quota size from the key_type struct will be stored into quotalen.

    The preparser may parse the payload in any way it likes and may store data in
    the type_data[] and payload fields for use by the instantiate() and update()
    ops.

    The preparser may also propose a description for the key by attaching it as a
    string to the description field. This can be used by passing a NULL or ""
    description to the add_key() system call or the key_create_or_update()
    function. This cannot work with request_key() as that required the description
    to tell the upcall about the key to be created.

    This, for example permits keys that store PGP public keys to generate their own
    name from the user ID and public key fingerprint in the key.

    The instantiate() and update() operations are then modified to look like this:

    int (*instantiate)(struct key *key, struct key_preparsed_payload *prep);
    int (*update)(struct key *key, struct key_preparsed_payload *prep);

    and the new payload data is passed in *prep, whether or not it was preparsed.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells

    David Howells
     

22 May, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
    "New notable features:
    - The seccomp work from Will Drewry
    - PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS from Andy Lutomirski
    - Longer security labels for Smack from Casey Schaufler
    - Additional ptrace restriction modes for Yama by Kees Cook"

    Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig and include/linux/filter.h

    * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (65 commits)
    apparmor: fix long path failure due to disconnected path
    apparmor: fix profile lookup for unconfined
    ima: fix filename hint to reflect script interpreter name
    KEYS: Don't check for NULL key pointer in key_validate()
    Smack: allow for significantly longer Smack labels v4
    gfp flags for security_inode_alloc()?
    Smack: recursive tramsmute
    Yama: replace capable() with ns_capable()
    TOMOYO: Accept manager programs which do not start with / .
    KEYS: Add invalidation support
    KEYS: Do LRU discard in full keyrings
    KEYS: Permit in-place link replacement in keyring list
    KEYS: Perform RCU synchronisation on keys prior to key destruction
    KEYS: Announce key type (un)registration
    KEYS: Reorganise keys Makefile
    KEYS: Move the key config into security/keys/Kconfig
    KEYS: Use the compat keyctl() syscall wrapper on Sparc64 for Sparc32 compat
    Yama: remove an unused variable
    samples/seccomp: fix dependencies on arch macros
    Yama: add additional ptrace scopes
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

11 May, 2012

1 commit


16 Apr, 2012

1 commit


19 Jan, 2012

1 commit

  • The kernel contains some special internal keyrings, for instance the DNS
    resolver keyring :

    2a93faf1 I----- 1 perm 1f030000 0 0 keyring .dns_resolver: empty

    It would occasionally be useful to allow the contents of such keyrings to be
    flushed by root (cache invalidation).

    Allow a flag to be set on a keyring to mark that someone possessing the
    sysadmin capability can clear the keyring, even without normal write access to
    the keyring.

    Set this flag on the special keyrings created by the DNS resolver, the NFS
    identity mapper and the CIFS identity mapper.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Jeff Layton
    Acked-by: Steve Dickson
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     

17 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • Improve /proc/keys by:

    (1) Don't attempt to summarise the payload of a negated key. It won't have
    one. To this end, a helper function - key_is_instantiated() has been
    added that allows the caller to find out whether the key is positively
    instantiated (as opposed to being uninstantiated or negatively
    instantiated).

    (2) Do show keys that are negative, expired or revoked rather than hiding
    them. This requires an override flag (no_state_check) to be passed to
    search_my_process_keyrings() and keyring_search_aux() to suppress this
    check.

    Without this, keys that are possessed by the caller, but only grant
    permissions to the caller if possessed are skipped as the possession check
    fails.

    Keys that are visible due to user, group or other checks are visible with
    or without this patch.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     

04 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • When a DNS resolver key is instantiated with an error indication, attempts to
    read that key will result in an oops because user_read() is expecting there to
    be a payload - and there isn't one [CVE-2011-1076].

    Give the DNS resolver key its own read handler that returns the error cached in
    key->type_data.x[0] as an error rather than crashing.

    Also make the kenter() at the beginning of dns_resolver_instantiate() limit the
    amount of data it prints, since the data is not necessarily NUL-terminated.

    The buggy code was added in:

    commit 4a2d789267e00b5a1175ecd2ddefcc78b83fbf09
    Author: Wang Lei
    Date: Wed Aug 11 09:37:58 2010 +0100
    Subject: DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached [ver #2]

    This can trivially be reproduced by any user with the following program
    compiled with -lkeyutils:

    #include
    #include
    #include
    static char payload[] = "#dnserror=6";
    int main()
    {
    key_serial_t key;
    key = add_key("dns_resolver", "a", payload, sizeof(payload),
    KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING);
    if (key == -1)
    err(1, "add_key");
    if (keyctl_read(key, NULL, 0) == -1)
    err(1, "read_key");
    return 0;
    }

    What should happen is that keyctl_read() reports error 6 (ENXIO) to the user:

    dns-break: read_key: No such device or address

    but instead the kernel oopses.

    This cannot be reproduced with the 'keyutils add' or 'keyutils padd' commands
    as both of those cut the data down below the NUL termination that must be
    included in the data. Without this dns_resolver_instantiate() will return
    -EINVAL and the key will not be instantiated such that it can be read.

    The oops looks like:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
    IP: [] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
    PGD 3bdf8067 PUD 385b9067 PMD 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
    last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/irq
    CPU 0
    Modules linked in:

    Pid: 2150, comm: dns-break Not tainted 2.6.38-rc7-cachefs+ #468 /DG965RY
    RIP: 0010:[] [] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
    RSP: 0018:ffff88003bf47f08 EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88003b5ea378 RCX: ffffffff81972368
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88003b5ea378
    RBP: ffff88003bf47f28 R08: ffff88003be56620 R09: 0000000000000000
    R10: 0000000000000395 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000
    R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffffffffa1
    FS: 00007feab5751700(0000) GS:ffff88003e000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000003de40000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
    DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
    DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
    Process dns-break (pid: 2150, threadinfo ffff88003bf46000, task ffff88003be56090)
    Stack:
    ffff88003b5ea378 ffff88003b5ea3a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
    ffff88003bf47f68 ffffffff811b708e ffff88003c442bc8 0000000000000000
    00000000004005a0 00007fffba368060 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
    Call Trace:
    [] keyctl_read_key+0xac/0xcf
    [] sys_keyctl+0x75/0xb6
    [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
    Code: 75 1f 48 83 7b 28 00 75 18 c6 05 58 2b fb 00 01 be bb 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 76 1c 75 81 e8 13 c2 e9 ff 4c 8b b3 e0 00 00 00 4d 85 ed 0f b7 5e 10 74 2d 4d 85 e4 74 28 e8 98 79 ee ff 49 39 dd 48
    RIP [] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
    RSP
    CR2: 0000000000000010

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Jeff Layton
    cc: Wang Lei
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     

12 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached in the DNS resolver
    key in lieu of a value. Userspace passes the desired error number as an option
    in the payload:

    "#dnserror="

    Userspace must map h_errno from the name resolution routines to an appropriate
    Linux error before passing it up. Something like the following mapping is
    recommended:

    [HOST_NOT_FOUND] = ENODATA,
    [TRY_AGAIN] = EAGAIN,
    [NO_RECOVERY] = ECONNREFUSED,
    [NO_DATA] = ENODATA,

    in lieu of Linux errors specifically for representing name service errors. The
    filesystem must map these errors appropropriately before passing them to
    userspace. AFS is made to map ENODATA and EAGAIN to EDESTADDRREQ for the
    return to userspace; ECONNREFUSED is allowed to stand as is.

    The error can be seen in /proc/keys as a negative number after the description
    of the key. Compare, for example, the following key entries:

    2f97238c I--Q-- 1 53s 3f010000 0 0 dns_resol afsdb:grand.centrall.org: -61
    338bfbbe I--Q-- 1 59m 3f010000 0 0 dns_resol afsdb:grand.central.org: 37

    If the error option is supplied in the payload, the main part of the payload is
    discarded. The key should have an expiry time set by userspace.

    Signed-off-by: Wang Lei
    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Jeff Layton
    Signed-off-by: Steve French

    Wang Lei
     

06 Aug, 2010

2 commits

  • Fixes build errors:

    net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c: In function 'init_dns_resolver':
    net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c:170: error: implicit declaration of function 'IS_ERR'
    net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c:171: error: implicit declaration of function 'PTR_ERR'
    net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c: In function 'dns_query':
    net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c:126: error: implicit declaration of function 'IS_ERR'
    net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c:127: error: implicit declaration of function 'PTR_ERR'

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Steve French

    Stephen Rothwell
     
  • Separate out the DNS resolver key type from the CIFS filesystem into its own
    module so that it can be made available for general use, including the AFS
    filesystem module.

    This facility makes it possible for the kernel to upcall to userspace to have
    it issue DNS requests, package up the replies and present them to the kernel
    in a useful form. The kernel is then able to cache the DNS replies as keys
    can be retained in keyrings.

    Resolver keys are of type "dns_resolver" and have a case-insensitive
    description that is of the form "[:]". The optional
    indicates the particular DNS lookup and packaging that's required. The
    is the query to be made.

    If isn't given, a basic hostname to IP address lookup is made, and the
    result is stored in the key in the form of a printable string consisting of a
    comma-separated list of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

    This key type is supported by userspace helpers driven from /sbin/request-key
    and configured through /etc/request-key.conf. The cifs.upcall utility is
    invoked for UNC path server name to IP address resolution.

    The CIFS functionality is encapsulated by the dns_resolve_unc_to_ip() function,
    which is used to resolve a UNC path to an IP address for CIFS filesystem. This
    part remains in the CIFS module for now.

    See the added Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.txt for more information.

    Signed-off-by: Wang Lei
    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Jeff Layton
    Signed-off-by: Steve French

    Wang Lei